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'Free our president', Maduro supporters demand at rally
AFP, Published on 05/01/2026
» CARACAS - Around 2,000 supporters of ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro demonstrated Sunday in Caracas to demand that he and his wife, who were nabbed by US forces and taken to a New York jail, be released.
At Trump-themed Texas burger joint, diners eating it up
AFP, Published on 24/04/2025
» BELLVILLE, Texas - It is lunchtime at Trump Burger and diners are enjoying fast food and the frenetic first 100 days of their president’s second term.
Loeb takes Dakar Rally stage after Sainz caught speeding
AFP, Published on 09/01/2023
» RIYADH - Sebastien Loeb grabbed victory Sunday in the eighth stage of the Dakar Rally after Carlos Sainz was hit with a five-minute penalty.
Bolsonaro, Lula hold final rallies before Brazil vote
AFP, Published on 01/10/2022
» SAO PAULO - Far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and leftist front-runner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva held their final campaign rallies Saturday, gathering their supporters just kilometers apart as tension crackled on the eve of Brazil's polarizing presidential election.
Mountain biking rivals skiing in Austria as Alps warm
AFP, Published on 26/08/2021
» SANKT CORONA (AUSTRIA) - A village in the Austrian Alps known for its family-friendly ski resort has been forced to adapt to waning snow due to climate change, turning to a new downhill sport -- mountain biking.
Benghazi bikers rev up to show another side of Libya
AFP, Published on 15/05/2021
» BENGHAZI (LIBYA) - Bikers of Libya's Mediterranean city of Benghazi, the cradle of its 2011 revolution and a one-time Islamist bastion, rev up their motors to show another side to their war-scarred country.
US biker rally may have led to 260,000 new Covid-19 cases
AFP, Published on 09/09/2020
» WASHINGTON: A massive motorcycle rally held in the US state of South Dakota last month may have been responsible for 260,000 new coronavirus cases, according to an analysis published Tuesday.
Defying virus, thousands of motorcyclists flood into small US town
AFP, Published on 10/08/2020
» STURGIS, US: Shrugging off the five million coronavirus cases now tallied on US soil, thousands of motorcyclists are converging this weekend on a small South Dakota town for what is billed as the biggest cycle gathering in the world.
Tolkien TV show seeks burns victims, amputees as extras
AFP, Published on 24/06/2020
» WELLINGTON: A New Zealand casting agency is appealing for aspiring actors with facial burns, missing limbs and other "funky" looks to become extras in a Lord of the Rings television series.
'Hello brother': Words that countered a gunman's hate
AFP, Published on 21/03/2019
» CHRISTCHURCH (NEW ZEALAND) - "Hello brother." The warm-hearted words an elderly Muslim reportedly used to greet a white supremacist gunman have become Christchurch's answer to his volley of hate.